The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals–or bestiality.

On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.

Can’t you just see some Senator or aide saying “What, how’d that get in there?”

And I just gotta ask… Is this a move to protect gays, or an attempt increase recruitment from among certain ethic/religious groups?

Redacted- I second that! Who makes that decision? Isn’t the argument against comparing sexual predilictions like beastiality and homosexuality is that one is consensual and one is not. So when did not consensual sex become okay in the military? Can we expect them to rescind the restrictions on child porn and child relationships also. Ugh! No slippery slope there at all.. nothing to see here.

I heard a great story of a Major’s wife that got a dog to mount her. Only he got stuck. You can imagine how that looked when they rolled into the ER. He was out in the field, and got a rather embarrassing phone call.

The repeal of the Sodomy ban is long overdue…….surely our esteemed legislators can craft the wording to keep the family pet out of the fray. Not that a law is going to keep a sheep defiler from defiling sheep or anything…..

Yes, that’s okay. Screwing your best friend’s wife is okay. Screwing your mother is okay. Screwing Lassie and Mr. Ed is okay. Screwing the crack of dawn is okay. Every-freakin’-thing you want to do is okay.

UpNorth – it applies to all sodomy per se. However, Article 120, the consolidated sex-crime statute, covers every kind of nonconsensual sex act you could wish, including oral and anal.

Getting rid of the consensual sodomy statute is a good idea. In practice, this is used as a “consolation prize” for prosecutors. Say a troop has sex at a barracks party, admits the sex (including oral sex), but says it was consensual. The girl says it was rape all the way. If the prosecutors charge both rape and consensual sodomy, they are guaranteed to convict him of something even if he’s acquitted of the real crime. That simply isn’t right.

Article 120 includes a crime called “indecent acts with another” – which in practice is used to punish “public sex” (i.e., you have a threesome, or two couples have voluntary sex in the same room at the same time). Again, in practice, this gets charged in rape cases, where the prosecution is afraid they might lose on the rape charge, but they want “something they can get him on.” This, too, ought to be excised from the UCMJ.

Animal sex can still be punished under Article 134 – at least in any case where buggering dogs and sheep “tends to bring the Armed Forces into disrepute.” Which, as far as my imagination stretches, is all of them.

I can see that I turned off the sarcasm alert too soon. Sorry, Al, I was being sarcastic.
I’m eagerly awaiting a response from the offices of the renowned defense expert, Carl Levin, to my email inquiring as to the ways that he intends to unfuck this fuck up.

There is no ‘right’ to sodomy. Nobody here it seems has ever claimed that there was. There is also no ‘right’ to missionary sex. What is at stake in arguments such as these, is one’s position on the individual exercise of liberty.

The irony here is that in an effort to restrict that exercise of homosexuals, far more heterosexuals are affected, at least on paper.

As much as bestiality is gross and I do not support it, we don’t need the government in our bedrooms. I am all against blocking forms of forceable sex (rape) but who gives a shit if a person is a sodomizer really? Blowjobs aren’t illegal? C’mon…

I have a “right” to demand a blowjob. Doesn’t mean I’m going to get it. Although, and if we’re being honest here, there are some military women, its hard NOT to get a blowjob from them. Which would explain why Sick Call Monday morning usually has the same guys in the same company complaining about how it burns when they piss.

Having said that, there are actually legitimate medical reasons not to sodomize (in this case we’re going to assume consensual sticking of dick in ass) You know how you get hemorrhoids if you strain too hard when you take a shit? yeah, apparently that also happens during anal sex. Also it can cause taring of the rectal and colon walls. If you know anything about the GI system you’d know this is a REALLY bad thing. I can go on and on, and yes there is research to back me up. Sadly we’re too PC to accept this but hey what can you do?

I’m not for sodomy, OK. It’s not my cup of tea. But at the same time who really cares? Let’s not disguise this as a medical “issue”. Because I’ve seen plenty of fat Air Force guys to know that there are bigger health issues afoot.

@29: the vagina is one of the few self cleaning organs in the human body, as long as you aren’t an idiot and shove soap up there (which kills the PH balance and thus the cleaning system) even severe tearing will heal easily.

The large intestine is full of bacteria (the small intestine is not), and if you have any perforations in the colon, that bacteria will go nuts. While said bacteria helps digestion, if introduced to the abdominal cavity, its a REALLY bad thing.

Also another fun fact, people who have lots of anal sex, tend to have problems holding in their bowel movements. Ahh the medical things they never tell you.

All of your points are valid, but I’m not sure how PC comes into play. People are going to do what they wish sexually, laws be damned. Your points could also be a factor in why many gay men choose not to engage in anal sex.

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